An Interesting Alliance (ON HOLD)

Chapter XXIII

Percy

From the portal, thousands more of Chitauri soldiers and even more more Chitauri Leviathans flew out!

We, the Avengers, looked up at the portal, way out of our fucking element.

"Guys..." called Natasha.

"Call it, Cap" said Stark.

"Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, we're gonna use containment. Barton, I want you on that roof, eyes on everything. Call out patterns and strays. Stark, you got the perimeter. Anything gets more than three blocks out, you turn it back or your turn it to ash."

Clint turned to Iron Man. "Wanna give me a lift?"

"Right. Better clench up, Legolas." And Stark lifted Barton to a building before the latter could say anything about his nickname.

Captain America turned to Thor. "Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal. Slow them down. You've got the lightning. Light the bastards up."

Thor nodded.

Satisfied, Rogers turned to us. "You and me, we stay here on the ground, keep the fighting here. The hounds will give us a slight advantage." He turned around and called the Hulk. "And Hulk... SMASH."

The Hulk smiled a most magnificent grin and leaped, soaring high up into the nearest building on the other side of the street, throwing the dead Chitauri soldiers towards other soldiers who fired at him, but the Hulk backhanded them, seized them and wit raw power, threw them down. In his most powerful leap yet, the Hulk flew up and found himself in the middle of a flying chariot traffic jam, to which he smacked them out of altitude.

"Awesome," I whispered and returned to my fighting, killing the Chitauri mercilessly, barely paying attention to the conversations between the team-mates. I noticed Thor flying up to the Empire State Building. Wait... are the gods watching this? Are they aware about what the hell is going on in New York? And they're doing nothing. Typical.

I shook my head and returned fighting. I tuned out everything, focused on killing them, because this is my home (according to Nick, he said I was born in New York, Manhattan) and they dare attack it. Now I sound like these cartoon movies about heroes where... Ugh... You know what I mean... hopefully...

After cutting a Chitauri soldier throat I turned to Cap. "Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal" I said tiredly.

"Our biggest guns couldn't touch it" he said.

I gestured to the flying chariots. "Well, maybe it's not about guns."

"You wanna get up there, you're gonna need a ride."

"I got a ride. I could use a lift though." I backed up giving myself a running start. Cap lifted and angled his shield.

"Are you sure about this?"

"Yeah. It's gonna be fun." I smirked. I ran at Captain America and did a parkour move, using my feet to run up a car and jumped up on Cap's shield who gave me a boost. I was thrown high enough until I grabbed a flying chariot. I climbed onto it and cut the turret shooter's linkage to the chariot. I then jumped on the rider and stuck my knives of ice into his nervous system so I can get him to bank over a building. I idly noticed that Nat did the same thing and that Iron Man shot any other Chitauri riders following us. I flinched when I heard a clap of thunder, thinking it was Zeus getting low trying to kill me while I was in his domain, then I remembered it was Thor, and that Zeus had my father to answer if he killed me. Good to know I have a protective father.